Designation: Manager Cushion & CoversLocation: Gandhinagar, Gujarat

About the RoleWe are looking for an experienced Production Manager – Cushion & Cover Category to lead end-to-end production operations for our cushion, cover, soft furnishing, and related customized textile products.The incumbent will be responsible for managing production planning and execution, cutting, stitching/sewing, filling, finishing, quality, manpower productivity, machine utilization, and timely order fulfilment.The role requires strong expertise in soft textile products, cushion and cover manufacturing, stitching operations, production planning, process optimization, quality management, and large-scale shop-floor operations. The candidate will work closely with PPC, Quality, SCM, Industrial Engineering, Maintenance, Design, and other cross-functional teams to ensure efficient and timely execution of customer orders.

Key Responsibilities1. Production Operations Management

- Lead day-to-day production operations for cushion, covers, soft furnishings, and customized textile products.
- Manage end-to-end manufacturing processes including fabric cutting, printing/customization, stitching, sewing, filling, assembly, finishing, packing, and dispatch.
- Ensure achievement of daily, weekly, and monthly production targets.
- Optimize manpower and machine utilization to achieve planned production volumes.
- Ensure production schedules are executed as per customer requirements and committed delivery timelines.
- Monitor shop-floor operations and proactively address bottlenecks affecting production output.

2. Production Planning & Execution

- Coordinate closely with PPC and SCM teams to ensure availability of fabrics, trims, fillers, accessories, packaging materials, and other required raw materials.
- Plan production capacity based on order volumes, product complexity, manpower availability, and machine capacity.
- Monitor WIP, production flow, line balancing, machine loading, and bottlenecks.
- Ensure effective production sequencing for multiple SKUs, customized orders, and varying product specifications.
- Establish effective shift planning, production allocation, and handover mechanisms.
- Ensure smooth execution of urgent and priority orders without compromising quality.

3. Cutting, Stitching & Sewing Operations

- Drive operational efficiency across cutting, stitching, sewing, filling, assembly, and finishing processes.
- Optimize cutting layouts and fabric utilization to minimize wastage.
- Improve stitching productivity through appropriate machine allocation, line balancing, and operator skill mapping.
- Monitor sewing machine efficiency, operator productivity, cycle times, and line output.




- Identify process constraints and implement corrective actions to improve throughput.
- Standardize processes and SOPs across different product categories and production lines.

4. Quality Management

- Ensure adherence to defined product specifications, workmanship standards, and customer requirements.
- Minimize defects, rejection, rework, fabric wastage, stitching defects, dimensional deviations, and finishing issues.
- Work closely with QA/QC teams to establish process quality checkpoints.
- Drive root-cause analysis and corrective/preventive actions for recurring quality issues.
- Ensure consistency in dimensions, stitching quality, filling density, finishing, appearance, and overall product quality.
- Monitor quality metrics and implement continuous improvement initiatives.

5. Manpower & Shop-Floor Management

- Lead supervisors, line leaders, operators, tailors, cutters, helpers, and other shop-floor personnel.
- Plan manpower deployment based on production requirements and skill availability.
- Monitor attendance, productivity, discipline, and workforce utilization.
- Develop skill matrices and identify training requirements for operators and supervisors.
- Drive multi-skilling and cross-training initiatives to improve workforce flexibility.
- Build a performance-oriented, disciplined, and safety-focused production culture.

6. Machine & Equipment Management

- Ensure optimum utilization of stitching, sewing, cutting, printing, filling, and finishing equipment.
- Coordinate with Maintenance teams to minimize machine breakdowns and production downtime.
- Monitor machine efficiency and support preventive maintenance initiatives.
- Identify requirements for current machines, tooling, automation, and process improvements.
- Support machine installation, trials, commissioning, and production stabilization.
- Evaluate opportunities for automation in repetitive and high-volume production processes.

7. Productivity & Process Improvement

- Drive Lean Manufacturing, Kaizen, 5S, line balancing, and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Improve productivity through optimization of manpower, machine utilization, process flow, and cycle times.
- Identify opportunities to reduce material wastage, rework, overtime, and production costs.
- Analyze production MIS and KPI dashboards to identify performance gaps.
- Establish and monitor KPIs for productivity, efficiency, quality,



wastage, downtime, and on-time production.
- Drive standardization and process improvement across the cushion and cover manufacturing operations.

8. Cross-Functional Coordination

- Work closely with PPC, SCM, Quality, Industrial Engineering, Maintenance, Design, Product Development, and Warehouse teams.
- Coordinate with Design/Product teams to understand new product specifications and manufacturing requirements.
- Support new product introduction (NPI), sampling, trials, and production scale-up.
- Ensure smooth transition of new products from sampling to mass production.
- Resolve production-related issues impacting order fulfillment and customer commitments.

9. Safety & Compliance

- Ensure adherence to EHS and statutory requirements across the production floor.
- Maintain safe working practices across cutting, stitching, filling, printing, and finishing operations.
- Conduct regular shop-floor audits and ensure timely closure of safety observations.
- Promote 5S, workplace discipline, housekeeping, and safe equipment handling.

Key Deliverables

- Achievement of daily/monthly production targets.
- Improved production efficiency and machine utilization.
- Reduction in rejection, rework, wastage, and production losses.
- Improved stitching, cutting, filling, and finishing productivity.
- Improved fabric utilization and reduction in material wastage.
- Timely completion of customized customer orders.
- Effective manpower utilization and productivity improvement.
- Reduction in machine downtime and process bottlenecks.
- Successful execution of new product introductions and production scale-ups.
- Controlled manufacturing cost and continuous process improvement.
- Safe, disciplined, and compliant production operations.

Qualification & Experience

- Bachelor’s Degree/Diploma in Textile Engineering, Production, Mechanical, Industrial Engineering, or a related discipline.
- 8–12 years of experience in textile, home furnishing, soft furnishing, cushion, cover, upholstery, garmenting, or related manufacturing operations.
- Strong experience in cutting, stitching/sewing, filling, finishing, and soft textile product manufacturing.
- Experience managing large shop-floor manpower and multiple production lines/shifts.
- Strong understanding of production planning, line balancing, productivity improvement, quality management, and manufacturing KPIs.
- Exposure to Lean Manufacturing, Kaizen, 5S, and process improvement will be preferred.
- Experience in customized/high-SKU or e-commerce manufacturing environments will be an added advantage.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, people-management, and cross-functional coordination skills.

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